Macklemore & Ryan Lewis:A Wake Lyrics

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I need loveYou need loveGive me loveAnd I'll give you my love

They say thirty is the new twentyAnd twenty is the new thirty shit I guessMakes sense, cause fifteen year olds seem twentyAnd twenty five year olds seem tenI used to drink away my paycheckCelebrate the mistakes I hadn't made yetOur generation isn't the best on safe sexWe forget the latex, becoming Planned Parenthood patientsSynthetic heroin is the new bassheadSo much to escape, fuck a straight edgeWalk around looking through a fake lensApps this good, whose got time to make friends?I wish I didn't careAcynical hispters with long hairCocaine problems, like my musicIt's not my issue, I can't solve it

My flight has finally landed downAnd the ground has stopped moving all aroundEyes open, awake for the very first timeWe both forfeit this game of crime

They say it's so refreshing to hear somebody on recordsNo guns, no drugs, no sex, just truthThe guns that's America, the drugs are what they gave to usAnd sex sells itself, don't judge her till it's youAh, I'm not more or less cautiousThe rappers rappin' 'bout them strippers up on the pole, coppingThese interviews are obnoxiousSaying that it's poetry is so well spoken, stop itI grew up during ReaganomicsWhen Ice T was out there on his killing cops shitOr Rodney King was getting beat onAnd they let off every single officerAnd Los Angeles went and lost itNow every month there is a new Rodney on YoutubeIt's just something our generation is used toAnd neighbourhoods where you never see a news crewUnless they're gentrifying, white people don't even cruise throughAnd my subconcious telling me stop itThis is an issue that you shouldn't get involved inDon't even tweet, R.I.P Trayvon MartinDon't wanna be that white dude, million man marchin'Fighting for our freedom that my people stoleDon't wanna make all my white fans uncomfortableBut you don't even have a fuckin' song for radioWhy you out here talkin' race, tryin' to save the fuckin' globeDon't get involved with the causes in mindWhite privilege, white guilt, at the same damn timeSo we just party like it's nineteen ninety nineCelebrate the ignorance while these kids keep dying

My flight has finally landed downAnd the ground has stopped moving all aroundEyes open, awake for the very first timeWe both forfeit this game of crime